The International Olympic Committee announced Thursday that it has approved Los Angeles, Paris and Budapest to continue forward in the bidding process for the 2024 Summer Games. No surprise there — not for an organization desperate to find cities that will host its mega-sporting event. The tougher...

In an era when the Olympics have become synonymous with cost overruns and massive deficits, the private committee seeking to bring the Summer Games back to Southern California has released what it calls a “no-surprises” balanced budget. LA 2024’s latest proposal, issued on Friday, estimates that...

Los Angeles has taken its case for the 2024 Summer Olympics to President-elect Donald Trump. Last week, Mayor Eric Garcetti — who has spearheaded the bid — spoke with Trump about a number of issues, including the Games. Now, LA 2024 officials say, Trump called Thomas Bach, president of the International...

A doping cover-up dubbed the “total protection project” shielded Russian medal winners at the 2012 London Olympics, allowing them to compete when they should have been banned, according to emails seized by French prosecutors. The emails published Friday by French newspaper Le Monde and German...

It seems that Allyson Felix showed up a little late. Born in 1985, she just missed the Olympic Games in Los Angeles and, more specifically, the track and field competition at the Coliseum. Her family has pictures from that summer. People she knows — older people — have told her how much fun it...

The private committee hoping to bring the Olympic Games back to Los Angeles in 2024 will face a critical test in Doha, Qatar, next week. Mayor Eric Garcetti and Allyson Felix, the six-time gold medalist sprinter, lead an LA 2024 contingent that will present its bid to an array of Olympic leaders...

Much has been written in recent months about the international community’s reaction to Donald Trump’s bid for the White House and how a Trump presidency might impact Los Angeles’ bid to host the 2024 Summer Olympics. Now – with the Republican winning on Tuesday – LA 2024 will find out. "LA 2024...

The whispers have grown louder — day by day, week by week — leading to the U.S. presidential election. International Olympic Committee members, be they from major European nations or tiny countries in far-flung corners of the world, have quietly grumbled about Donald Trump. They don’t like his...

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The Tournament of Roses has selected three Olympians to serve as grand marshals for the upcoming 128th Rose Parade. Greg Louganis, Janet Evans and Allyson Felix will share the honors for the New Year’s event. Louganis is a four-time gold medalist in the sport of diving. Evans is a four-time champion...

The revelations would be even more disturbing if they weren’t so common, with Olympic leaders announcing on a regular basis that they are stripping medals from athletes who doped at previous Games. On Thursday, the International Olympic Committee said the campaign to retest stored samples had netted...

The LA 2024 bid committee has once again enlisted U.S. Olympians to help make the case for bringing the Summer Olympics to Los Angeles for a third time. Katie Ledecky, Simone Manuel and Tamika Catchings headline the athletes appearing in a video series titled “Coming Home” that was released on...

Ashley Wagner was 24 when she won a silver medal at the figure skating world championships this year and ended a decade-long medal shutout for American women, an advanced age in a sport that too often values youth and acrobatic jumping over assured artistry. Wagner shared the medal stand with winner...

Olympic leaders have continued to voice their displeasure with the political climate that forced Rome to suspend its bid for the 2024 Summer Games. The International Olympic Committee reiterated its concerns in a letter to the Italian Olympic Committee that was made public on Monday. “Based on...

Speaking to European leaders, the president of the International Olympic Committee said Wednesday that sport needs government help in the fight against doping. IOC President Thomas Bach made his request during a speech to the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, France. “The cooperation between the...

After a summer of not-so-subtle bickering, it appears Olympic leaders and anti-doping authorities are ready to cooperate on a new campaign to go after drug cheats. Speaking from a summit in Switzerland on Saturday, the International Olympic Committee called for the World Anti-Doping Agency to take...

Concluding their latest visit to South Korea, Olympic leaders expressed confidence in preparations for the 2018 Winter Games in Pyeongchang. The International Olympic Committee’s coordination commission announced Friday that the host city’s venues are 90% complete with dozens of test events scheduled...

If you thought some of the boxing decisions from the recent 2016 Summer Olympics were questionable, the sport’s international federation shares your concern. International Boxing Assn. (AIBA) officials announced Thursday that they would sideline all 36 referees and judges from that competition...

It could be another week before Los Angeles finds out if Rome — one of its rivals for the 2024 Summer Olympics — will continue as a candidate. Roma 2024 officials told insidethegames.com they will hold a news conference Tuesday to address the future of the bid. Virginia Raggi , the Italian capital’s...

LA 2024 officials have finalized negotiations with the state of California to add Lake Perris as a rowing and canoe-sprint venue for their Olympic bid. The switch to a Riverside County site 70 miles from downtown Los Angeles expands the footprint eastward for what had initially been touted as a...

There are replicas of the daunting BMX cycling tracks from the 2008 and 2012 Summer Games at the Olympic Training Center in Chula Vista, with steep start ramps that achieve speeds of 40 mph and 40-foot jumps and banked hairpin turns. That’s not where star Australian rider Sam Willoughby, an Olympic...

Los Angeles could be a step closer to hosting the 2024 Summer Olympics, with a rival bid from Rome sinking into political turmoil this week. Speaking at a news conference Wednesday, the mayor of the Italian capital insisted that staging the Games would be financially irresponsible and asked the...

Rome’s new mayor has officially opposed her city’s campaign to host the 2024 Summer Olympics, all but dooming the bid and leaving Los Angeles with one fewer competitor in a shrinking field. Virginia Raggi said Wednesday that it would be “irresponsible” to stage the massive and expensive sporting...

With a year remaining before Olympic leaders gather to vote, the LA 2024 bid committee has released the latest video touting its campaign to bring the Summer Games back to Los Angeles. The two-minute spot features a montage of local scenes with narration by children talking about their “dream city.”...

Ryan Lochte says he feels “a little hurt” after being involved in an altercation on “Dancing with the Stars” that prompted producers to cut to commercials. The beleaguered swimmer was reportedly rushed by an unknown pair of men wearing anti-Lochte T-shirts while receiving his scores from judge...

LA 2024 will send a 16-person delegation to the 2016 Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro as part of its ongoing campaign to bring the Olympics back to Southern California. The private bid committee – which had a larger group in Brazil for the recent Summer Games – will be represented by Chairman Casey...

An independent panel commissioned by the Japanese Olympic Committee has found no evidence of wrongdoing in Tokyo’s bid to win the 2020 Summer Games. The bid came under suspicion when it was discovered that officials paid $2.3 million to a Singapore consulting firm with ties to the son of Lamine...

Four more athletes have been stripped of past Olympic medals in the ongoing effort to re-test doping samples kept in storage from the 2012 London Games and 2008 Beijing Games. Once again, the big losers were the embattled sport of weightlifting and the country of Russia, which continues to deal...

Olympic gymnastics star Gabby Douglas was hospitalized Sunday night, forcing her to miss a scheduled appearance with her U.S. teammates at the MTV Video Music Awards. Four of the Final Five gymnastics greats from the Rio Olympics wished their ailing teammate well before getting hugs from best female...

Hope Solo's days with the women's national soccer team may not be over, but they are certainly numbered. Yet that doesn’t necessarily mean we’ve seen the last of her in a U.S. uniform. Solo was given a six-month suspension and her contract with U.S. Soccer was terminated last week over ill-considered...

The Olympic spirit is still alive in Polish discus thrower Piotr Malachowski. The 33-year-old Rio Games silver medalist has sold his medal to help cover the cost of surgery for 3-year-old Olek Szymanski, who is suffering from a rare eye cancer called retinoblastoma. Immediately after returning...

Brazilian police charged American swimmer Ryan Lochte on Thursday with filing a false robbery report over an incident during the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. A police statement said Lochte would be informed in the United States so he could decide whether to introduce a defense in Brazil. The indictment...

Katie Ledecky earned five Olympic medals in Rio last month. And those things weigh a ton — definitely not something she’d want hanging from her neck while throwing out the ceremonial first pitch for the Washington Nationals’ game against the Baltimore Orioles on Wednesday night. Good thing Bryce...

Jimmy Feigen signed a statement for Rio police in which he omitted key facts about an early morning incident at a gas station involving U.S. swimming teammate Ryan Lochte and two others during the Olympics earlier this month. “I omitted the facts that we urinated behind the building and that Ryan...

Of the 558 American athletes at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, a record 294 were women. Among the most dominant were the 12 women basketball players who on Saturday won an unprecedented sixth consecutive gold medal for the U.S. in the sport. Another high-profile group: the 18 players on the...